Friday, June 15, 2018, 16:39

35 circles of 14 mm diameter of cast #3 were packed into a graphite sample container.

35 x UO₂/C circles = 4.07 g

Graphite container mass = 5.3 g

Graphite tube is placed inside a target boat.

Boat previously coated with TaC and sintered.

Ta-target boat is wrapped with 3 used Ta foils for heat shielding and the boat was installed in Evap1.

Chamber currently pumping down.

 Saturday, June 16, 2018, 15:00

Tapped to 80A at 10A/10s with 20 s waiting period each 10 A

Waited 5 min for vacuum to stabilize.

Tapped to 90 A at 10A/10s with 20 s waiting period each 10 A

Waited 14 min for vacuum to stabilize

Tapped to 100 A at 10A/10s with 20 s waiting period each 10 A

Tapped to 520 A at 20A/20s with 20 s waiting period each 20 A

 Tuesday, June 19, 2018, 15:51 

 The material will be in the evap for a week

Wednesday, June 27, 2018, 09:53 

 The IEVAP  was vented with Ar and the UCx was trasnferred to the glove box.